Add Cisco to this list, and HP, and Dell, and IBM.
Did you forget that you're pitiful desktop measures in portions of a server? Do you know how many desktops they have to sell to match one large server (8U or better?) I mean honestly. And they have a lot more to gain from being a RHEL or whatever partner.
That's funny, I always heard the vendors say that they didn't have the authority to give away the IP that they licensed to build their cards in the first place.
How many video cards do MPEG decoding? Did you think that service was free? There is a lot of IP in most video cards, and all of that IP is either owned by nVidia or AMD/ATI, or by someone else. AMD/ATI or nVidia could surely give their own IP away (be silly to, but sure) but they can't legally break an NDA companywide.
For shame. I had the marginal luxury of 50 MHz on you, but you decide. I've (and it still runs) an AMD K6-2 450 which _had_ 192 MB RAM (3x64) (now has 3x128, so it pairs with yours) and I put XP on it about 2003. I do AutoCAD with it, rotating 3d models in real time, with barely a lag. I also use it to play WMP WMAs at 64bit encoding (I daren't actually play the CD, that would start to choke it down). But as you said, minimal settings turned on and the like. All this at 1024 resolution.
I think it pays off handsomely to learn how to setup a rig like this and have it be functional. The fact that I can use ACAD2k on the box and work on models with thousands of parts in 3D proves the usefulness of the system, the fact that it takes about 3-5 minutes to load ACAD2k proves how pitiful it performs nowadays in comparison to modern computers. The boot time is a beast too, which is odd, considering the stripped services. It seems to take forever, but it could be my drives are dying. She's done a good bit of service, so I'll likely do the right thing and Office Space her when she spins her last platter. Unless someone wants a working VooDoo3 3500TV AGP?
Okay, here's the only letdown to the whole show, it's been sitting powered down for about six months, as I've been so swamped between school and work (and the occasional/. post) that I haven't had time to do much with my laptop.
Now, having relayed that beautiful tear jerker (I know, huh) lemme just shoot down whoever says it won't run on less than 256 MB RAM. I know it will, I've done it, I'm not curious. It runs like shit until you "fix" Windows, but it runs. If you think I'm wrong, prove it. I tell you it runs. It runs like a dog, but it runs.
@Kuraaku Deibiddo: Yeah, you see what I mean (I never bother to keep straight on the proper terms for those, as every browser uses a different term _it seems_. If I say add-on to an IE dev, they think it means anything in the browser, etc). But yeah, I do mean add-on, so that it is O/S unspecific.
It does seem like a natural extension of what's already being done, doesn't it? I've been checking around with some other dev teams, so maybe there will be some competition on this front in the marketplace directly, so to speak... Time will tell.
Okay, I'm being a sap and jumping on a top post. So sue me.
Does anyone know if there is a Fx3 plugin that can synchronize all the plugins across all your O/S installs, to make sure that you're using the same set on all of your computers? I've got two work desktops, and both my laptop boots (Ubuntu, XP) and then there's the new laptop I hope to pick up when Uni Fall semester starts, so I'ld like to not revert to pen and paper...
Obviously thanks in advance, but this being/., I predict the first three replies to be snarky:D
Okay, answer to the last question first: No, the don't have the shock value Second portion of my post: My tail is sufficiently between my legs. Good points that I've not had given to me in response before. Pardon me while I whimper into a corner and nurse my wounds.
Obviously they're talking about State's Right's being subverted in the better economic interests of those who live in or around the northeast and those same policymakers interests being violated. They just happened to couch it in the terms of "slavery is bad"/"slavery is good".
Oh wait, that is what you said. Hmmm.
Okay, so I agree with Fulminata up until he ignores my comments about taxation across state lines, and how the federal government was doing nothing to stop that, which was the whole point of the federal government, and they hadn't been doing their job since ole Hamilton Franklin and Jefferson stepped down. Sure those three had some different ideas about how things should be run, but they still had some common goals.
State's have the right to fair commerce between the states, and the federal government should oversee that.
Read up the page to see how apparently I'm a racist asshole, even though I have never condoned slavery.
Okay, I'm an idiot for doing this, as now everyone'll say "He's a racist arsehole". I'm not racist, I have many black friends, I have many white friends, I don't give a holy f*k about race. I'm a facts man.
Alright, let's pretend that's true. I doubt it, but let's pretend. How about some facts...
The facts are that the blacks were trading the folks that got brought over on boats as slaves long before Whitey from the South showed up with empty boats headed to the sugar/cotton farms.
Fact 1: Slavery as practiced in Africa was very different from the kind of slavery practiced in the South. African slavery, like most world slavery throughout history, was a practice of taking war captives. Slavery was almost never for life, it did not extend to one's children, and a slave was not the chattel of another person. Read more here.
Observation: Two wrongs do not make a right. Even if Africans had practiced the kind of slavery that plantation owners did, that does not absolve the United States of any wrongdoing in its benefit from the trade, nor does it mean that there was no duty to put an end to rampant discrimination that followed the freeing of the slaves, from the "black laws" of the Reconstruction South that barred freed slaves from voting, owning property, being on juries, etc. to the "softer" Jim Crow laws and segregation of the 20th century.
I never agreed with slavery as it was established in the colonies. I believed in indentured servitude. Alas, poor me, I wasn't born 200+ years ago to right the wrongs. Apparently two rights don't make a restitution in this country?
Also, the slaves in Africa were chattel, don't ever believe otherwise. They were traded and they were mistreated. Sure, they were enslaved by similar groups, but they didn't become slaves for the village elders or something. There slavery was in the same veins as that of the Egyptians (ask a Jew about that slavery) and in the same vein as the Babylonian slavery, and in a similar vein to Roman slavery. All three of those cultures learned slavery from the African slavers.
The facts are that there were white slaves too, and black landowners/slaveowners/slavedrivers.
Fact 2: White slavery was largely unknown by the time of the Revolutionary War. Even the indentured servant system recognized indentured servants as having significantly more rights than black slaves. Indentured servitude was not for life, and masters were expected to give their servants a starting package (by law) to help them found their own homes and families. Colonial Virginia, for example, required that white servants be given a rifle, some money, and some minimal provisions.
As for black slaveowners in America: Citation please. (i.e. I call B.S.) Even if true, two wrongs don't make a right, and only the most deluded or ignorant student of history would believe that there was anything resembling equality between whites & blacks in their status in society.
Largely unknown!=not happening. It was largely unknown that people could eat in public and it not be a bad thing, and it was largely unknown that people could travel faster than 45 miles per hour. What does largely unknown have to do with anything? It did happen. It was a fact. And yet you never knew about black slaveowners in America? How did you miss that in civic ed? Apparently there are more on/. than just myself who have heard of it, so I'm not going to cite what they've already cited.
The facts are that anybody currently alive in the US who feels that [the history is still a good reason for active debate and hatred against a group of people who have no way to change their forefathers actions] should get up and leave the country.
Do you need help buying a plane ticket to move to Africa? (See, i
Ahh, I agree on the need to reevaluate, he had some really good points. I'll reply to that in a minute, but...
See, you know something about the civics of the South pre-1850 too, don't you? I don't think he gets that there were rich-people slaves, and then there were drawn and quartered cause boss-man got drunk slaves. They didn't all get treated like shit.
Okay, I'm an idiot for doing this, as now everyone'll say "He's a racist arsehole". I'm not racist, I have many black friends, I have many white friends, I don't give a holy f*k about race. I'm a facts man.
The facts are that the blacks were trading the folks that got brought over on boats as slaves long before Whitey from the South showed up with empty boats headed to the sugar/cotton farms.
The facts are that now those blacks are doing something with their lives besides swatting flies off their face in Africa.
The facts are that there were white slaves too, and black landowners/slaveowners/slavedrivers.
The facts are that anybody currently alive in the US who feels that [the history is still a good reason for active debate and hatred against a group of people who have no way to change their forefathers actions] should get up and leave the country.
Do you need help buying a plane ticket to move to Africa? (See, it's that last comment that's going to burn me, but I'm still asking, and I'm still serious. I advocate changing the system, not blaming the great...great grandkids.)
Sorry Quattro, but I agree with Hubbell here. The states were originally founded to each be sovereign, with a federal system to ensure interstate commerce and to protect the common borders (the oceans and the Canadian/Mexican borders as it stands todate). I don't know if you've noticed, but we've kinda given up any hope of only defending our own borders, as we'ld need to bring all our troops home from all the remote bases around the world. Then, we'ld need to, ya know, protect our own borders. That would be a real shame, eh?
As far as what that bill means, it doesn't mean that the Federal Gov't should say homosexuality is wrong, it says that the federal gov't should keep it's f*ing nose out of my bedroom. Now, once the federal gov't is gone, I'll deal with my state gov't. Mind you, I live in Texas, so I know what I'm talking about when I say I'll deal with the state once the feds are gone.
Plus, "it's like a whole other country here" and I'm getting to the point where I want my brethren in this region to think that way on a more regular basis. Seems there were a couple boys back in the 1800s that thought that way and went so far as to found a seperate nation between the US and Mexico, and the leaders only gave in when the populace wanted to join with the US, just in time for the Civil War. But for to be the only State in this here Union which was previously a successful country of it's own right, to me that's pretty decent. Don't you agree?
The civil war wasn't about the Union trying to tell the South that it couldn't secede, it was about the fact that the southerners didn't want to pay exorbitant taxes to the north for manufactured goods produced in the US. If you don't believe me, go ask a civil war historian (not some re-enactment fella, and not your kids civics class teacher. A real Historian) what the Civil War was started over, and they'll tell you it had nothing to do with Slavery. That was a battle cry that was picked up half-way through, and it made Lincoln look like a bastard to the south. Not only did they now half to pay exorbitant taxes, but they had invested all that money in slaves and now the investment was pissed away too.
You'll ignore this next sentence, I know.
NOT THAT I THINK SLAVERY WAS ALL THAT GOOD OF AN IDEA.
I mean, indentured servitude, sure that was good, because that was for a reason, and that was almost slavery. There weren't as many chains, but still.
Besides, I wasn't even going to go off about slavery or anything, I just wanted to mention the bit about how f*d up it is to have the federal gov't dictate what the individual states should do, any more than the fact that the fed'l gov't should not actively regulate interstate commerce. Yet, I also think that the fed'l gov't should quit asking for taxes in my state, just so they can dole them out in some other state, to a whole lot of freeloaders. And don't think they don't do just that.
Last riposte before I go. Do you know which was the last major democratic country to give a major economic stimulus to it's citizens when the economy was in a bad way? I'll give you a hint, you couldn't use a million marks to buy a loaf of bread. And now this gov't wants to give me an economic stimulus when my economy is going down the shitter? Oh great.
I don't know if you've noticed, but this site is one of the first blogs, it just has a lot more readers than your average blog. Given that the founder PROPOSED on this site, I would say that makes it a lot more personal than, say, the WSJ. Therfore, shaddup.
Besides, why am I replying to an AC? Guess I oughta not hit preview->submit
They let you reconfigure those options. Whoever said that the vendor knew best when it comes to the things they build obviously wasn't a hacker/MAKEr. (Go MAKE!!! Great mag)
by chance have you installed a more powerful antenna on your laptop? I'm curious, as my folks are saying that they're getting poor performance in their house, and I was thinking of installing this very product in their library (that corner would serve the whole house rather well) but didn't want to give them something else for their laptop. Mom already forgets about enough tech as it is.
Have you seen these? I think they would require LoS for maximum efficiency, but it's worth a peak. You could use two directional high gain antennas and point them at each other if LoS is nearly there... But bear in mind that nothing about their doc requires LoS, just that we all know it works better if there is.
As a happy end-user, I'll throw my two cents in for www.calyptix.com. We've started using their AE500 series for our office (Granted we're small, but the product is solid) and I have had only bulk-mails getting blocked at the onset (such as noreply@tigerdirect... etc)
Combine that with something like spambayes and properly configured, and within a few months, your users will not have hardly any spam in their inbox. Want a 3gb pst of pure unadulterated spam to start your filter? ha!
Wow, I would never want to have to live through that. It would seem from reading your post that you have found a tiny bit of closure, and for that for you I am happy. But to speak of offering condolences, I offer you mine, in the hopes that I should never have to live through the personal hell that you have had to live through.
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Add Cisco to this list, and HP, and Dell, and IBM.
Did you forget that you're pitiful desktop measures in portions of a server? Do you know how many desktops they have to sell to match one large server (8U or better?) I mean honestly. And they have a lot more to gain from being a RHEL or whatever partner.
That's funny, I always heard the vendors say that they didn't have the authority to give away the IP that they licensed to build their cards in the first place.
How many video cards do MPEG decoding? Did you think that service was free? There is a lot of IP in most video cards, and all of that IP is either owned by nVidia or AMD/ATI, or by someone else. AMD/ATI or nVidia could surely give their own IP away (be silly to, but sure) but they can't legally break an NDA companywide.
For shame. I had the marginal luxury of 50 MHz on you, but you decide. I've (and it still runs) an AMD K6-2 450 which _had_ 192 MB RAM (3x64) (now has 3x128, so it pairs with yours) and I put XP on it about 2003. I do AutoCAD with it, rotating 3d models in real time, with barely a lag. I also use it to play WMP WMAs at 64bit encoding (I daren't actually play the CD, that would start to choke it down). But as you said, minimal settings turned on and the like. All this at 1024 resolution.
/. post) that I haven't had time to do much with my laptop.
I think it pays off handsomely to learn how to setup a rig like this and have it be functional. The fact that I can use ACAD2k on the box and work on models with thousands of parts in 3D proves the usefulness of the system, the fact that it takes about 3-5 minutes to load ACAD2k proves how pitiful it performs nowadays in comparison to modern computers. The boot time is a beast too, which is odd, considering the stripped services. It seems to take forever, but it could be my drives are dying. She's done a good bit of service, so I'll likely do the right thing and Office Space her when she spins her last platter. Unless someone wants a working VooDoo3 3500TV AGP?
Okay, here's the only letdown to the whole show, it's been sitting powered down for about six months, as I've been so swamped between school and work (and the occasional
Now, having relayed that beautiful tear jerker (I know, huh) lemme just shoot down whoever says it won't run on less than 256 MB RAM. I know it will, I've done it, I'm not curious. It runs like shit until you "fix" Windows, but it runs. If you think I'm wrong, prove it. I tell you it runs. It runs like a dog, but it runs.
@Kuraaku Deibiddo:
Yeah, you see what I mean (I never bother to keep straight on the proper terms for those, as every browser uses a different term _it seems_. If I say add-on to an IE dev, they think it means anything in the browser, etc). But yeah, I do mean add-on, so that it is O/S unspecific.
It does seem like a natural extension of what's already being done, doesn't it? I've been checking around with some other dev teams, so maybe there will be some competition on this front in the marketplace directly, so to speak... Time will tell.
Okay, I'm being a sap and jumping on a top post. So sue me.
/., I predict the first three replies to be snarky :D
Does anyone know if there is a Fx3 plugin that can synchronize all the plugins across all your O/S installs, to make sure that you're using the same set on all of your computers? I've got two work desktops, and both my laptop boots (Ubuntu, XP) and then there's the new laptop I hope to pick up when Uni Fall semester starts, so I'ld like to not revert to pen and paper...
Obviously thanks in advance, but this being
Snark away fellas (and ladies, as present)
Only on slashdot would someone answer a rhetorical question with a truly smarmy answer. Bravo.
And you nearly made me squirt milk from my nose, but I wasn't drinking milk today.
Okay, it's my post, how was this insightful/interesting? I figured funny maybe. Hmm, I give up
Okay, answer to the last question first:
No, the don't have the shock value
Second portion of my post:
My tail is sufficiently between my legs. Good points that I've not had given to me in response before. Pardon me while I whimper into a corner and nurse my wounds.
Oh, thanks. I didn't know that.
I still want to see more on the national stage, which I think you summed up best at the bottom of your . Guess I shoulda' wiki'd that one, huh?
Obviously they're talking about State's Right's being subverted in the better economic interests of those who live in or around the northeast and those same policymakers interests being violated. They just happened to couch it in the terms of "slavery is bad"/"slavery is good".
Oh wait, that is what you said. Hmmm.
Okay, so I agree with Fulminata up until he ignores my comments about taxation across state lines, and how the federal government was doing nothing to stop that, which was the whole point of the federal government, and they hadn't been doing their job since ole Hamilton Franklin and Jefferson stepped down. Sure those three had some different ideas about how things should be run, but they still had some common goals.
State's have the right to fair commerce between the states, and the federal government should oversee that.
Read up the page to see how apparently I'm a racist asshole, even though I have never condoned slavery.
Okay, I'm an idiot for doing this, as now everyone'll say "He's a racist arsehole". I'm not racist, I have many black friends, I have many white friends, I don't give a holy f*k about race. I'm a facts man.
Alright, let's pretend that's true. I doubt it, but let's pretend. How about some facts...
The facts are that the blacks were trading the folks that got brought over on boats as slaves long before Whitey from the South showed up with empty boats headed to the sugar/cotton farms.
Fact 1: Slavery as practiced in Africa was very different from the kind of slavery practiced in the South. African slavery, like most world slavery throughout history, was a practice of taking war captives. Slavery was almost never for life, it did not extend to one's children, and a slave was not the chattel of another person. Read more here.
Observation: Two wrongs do not make a right. Even if Africans had practiced the kind of slavery that plantation owners did, that does not absolve the United States of any wrongdoing in its benefit from the trade, nor does it mean that there was no duty to put an end to rampant discrimination that followed the freeing of the slaves, from the "black laws" of the Reconstruction South that barred freed slaves from voting, owning property, being on juries, etc. to the "softer" Jim Crow laws and segregation of the 20th century.
I never agreed with slavery as it was established in the colonies. I believed in indentured servitude. Alas, poor me, I wasn't born 200+ years ago to right the wrongs. Apparently two rights don't make a restitution in this country?
Also, the slaves in Africa were chattel, don't ever believe otherwise. They were traded and they were mistreated. Sure, they were enslaved by similar groups, but they didn't become slaves for the village elders or something. There slavery was in the same veins as that of the Egyptians (ask a Jew about that slavery) and in the same vein as the Babylonian slavery, and in a similar vein to Roman slavery. All three of those cultures learned slavery from the African slavers.
The facts are that there were white slaves too, and black landowners/slaveowners/slavedrivers.
Fact 2: White slavery was largely unknown by the time of the Revolutionary War. Even the indentured servant system recognized indentured servants as having significantly more rights than black slaves. Indentured servitude was not for life, and masters were expected to give their servants a starting package (by law) to help them found their own homes and families. Colonial Virginia, for example, required that white servants be given a rifle, some money, and some minimal provisions.
As for black slaveowners in America: Citation please. (i.e. I call B.S.) Even if true, two wrongs don't make a right, and only the most deluded or ignorant student of history would believe that there was anything resembling equality between whites & blacks in their status in society.
Largely unknown!=not happening. It was largely unknown that people could eat in public and it not be a bad thing, and it was largely unknown that people could travel faster than 45 miles per hour. What does largely unknown have to do with anything? It did happen. It was a fact. And yet you never knew about black slaveowners in America? How did you miss that in civic ed? Apparently there are more on /. than just myself who have heard of it, so I'm not going to cite what they've already cited.
The facts are that anybody currently alive in the US who feels that [the history is still a good reason for active debate and hatred against a group of people who have no way to change their forefathers actions] should get up and leave the country.
Do you need help buying a plane ticket to move to Africa? (See, i
Ahh, I agree on the need to reevaluate, he had some really good points. I'll reply to that in a minute, but...
See, you know something about the civics of the South pre-1850 too, don't you? I don't think he gets that there were rich-people slaves, and then there were drawn and quartered cause boss-man got drunk slaves. They didn't all get treated like shit.
Okay, I'm an idiot for doing this, as now everyone'll say "He's a racist arsehole". I'm not racist, I have many black friends, I have many white friends, I don't give a holy f*k about race. I'm a facts man.
The facts are that the blacks were trading the folks that got brought over on boats as slaves long before Whitey from the South showed up with empty boats headed to the sugar/cotton farms.
The facts are that now those blacks are doing something with their lives besides swatting flies off their face in Africa.
The facts are that there were white slaves too, and black landowners/slaveowners/slavedrivers.
The facts are that anybody currently alive in the US who feels that [the history is still a good reason for active debate and hatred against a group of people who have no way to change their forefathers actions] should get up and leave the country.
Do you need help buying a plane ticket to move to Africa? (See, it's that last comment that's going to burn me, but I'm still asking, and I'm still serious. I advocate changing the system, not blaming the great...great grandkids.)
Three parties is just as bad as two. We need six or seven parties...
I guess just so long as there is no Party of Five on my presidential or congressional election stub...
Sorry Quattro, but I agree with Hubbell here. The states were originally founded to each be sovereign, with a federal system to ensure interstate commerce and to protect the common borders (the oceans and the Canadian/Mexican borders as it stands todate). I don't know if you've noticed, but we've kinda given up any hope of only defending our own borders, as we'ld need to bring all our troops home from all the remote bases around the world. Then, we'ld need to, ya know, protect our own borders. That would be a real shame, eh?
As far as what that bill means, it doesn't mean that the Federal Gov't should say homosexuality is wrong, it says that the federal gov't should keep it's f*ing nose out of my bedroom. Now, once the federal gov't is gone, I'll deal with my state gov't. Mind you, I live in Texas, so I know what I'm talking about when I say I'll deal with the state once the feds are gone.
Plus, "it's like a whole other country here" and I'm getting to the point where I want my brethren in this region to think that way on a more regular basis. Seems there were a couple boys back in the 1800s that thought that way and went so far as to found a seperate nation between the US and Mexico, and the leaders only gave in when the populace wanted to join with the US, just in time for the Civil War. But for to be the only State in this here Union which was previously a successful country of it's own right, to me that's pretty decent. Don't you agree?
The civil war wasn't about the Union trying to tell the South that it couldn't secede, it was about the fact that the southerners didn't want to pay exorbitant taxes to the north for manufactured goods produced in the US. If you don't believe me, go ask a civil war historian (not some re-enactment fella, and not your kids civics class teacher. A real Historian) what the Civil War was started over, and they'll tell you it had nothing to do with Slavery. That was a battle cry that was picked up half-way through, and it made Lincoln look like a bastard to the south. Not only did they now half to pay exorbitant taxes, but they had invested all that money in slaves and now the investment was pissed away too.
You'll ignore this next sentence, I know.
NOT THAT I THINK SLAVERY WAS ALL THAT GOOD OF AN IDEA.
I mean, indentured servitude, sure that was good, because that was for a reason, and that was almost slavery. There weren't as many chains, but still.
Besides, I wasn't even going to go off about slavery or anything, I just wanted to mention the bit about how f*d up it is to have the federal gov't dictate what the individual states should do, any more than the fact that the fed'l gov't should not actively regulate interstate commerce. Yet, I also think that the fed'l gov't should quit asking for taxes in my state, just so they can dole them out in some other state, to a whole lot of freeloaders. And don't think they don't do just that.
Last riposte before I go. Do you know which was the last major democratic country to give a major economic stimulus to it's citizens when the economy was in a bad way? I'll give you a hint, you couldn't use a million marks to buy a loaf of bread. And now this gov't wants to give me an economic stimulus when my economy is going down the shitter? Oh great.
I don't know if you've noticed, but this site is one of the first blogs, it just has a lot more readers than your average blog. Given that the founder PROPOSED on this site, I would say that makes it a lot more personal than, say, the WSJ. Therfore, shaddup. Besides, why am I replying to an AC? Guess I oughta not hit preview->submit
DD-WRT or Open-WRT or Tomato
They let you reconfigure those options. Whoever said that the vendor knew best when it comes to the things they build obviously wasn't a hacker/MAKEr. (Go MAKE!!! Great mag)
by chance have you installed a more powerful antenna on your laptop? I'm curious, as my folks are saying that they're getting poor performance in their house, and I was thinking of installing this very product in their library (that corner would serve the whole house rather well) but didn't want to give them something else for their laptop. Mom already forgets about enough tech as it is.
Not likely, but what we need here is NewYorkCountryLawyer (that is his handle, right?) for an opine.
Um, like the 300ft rule?
Have you seen these? I think they would require LoS for maximum efficiency, but it's worth a peak. You could use two directional high gain antennas and point them at each other if LoS is nearly there... But bear in mind that nothing about their doc requires LoS, just that we all know it works better if there is.
http://www.hawkingtech.com/products/productlist.php?CatID=32&FamID=58&ProdID=133
I thought ellipses were ...
As a happy end-user, I'll throw my two cents in for www.calyptix.com. We've started using their AE500 series for our office (Granted we're small, but the product is solid) and I have had only bulk-mails getting blocked at the onset (such as noreply@tigerdirect... etc)
Combine that with something like spambayes and properly configured, and within a few months, your users will not have hardly any spam in their inbox. Want a 3gb pst of pure unadulterated spam to start your filter? ha!
Wow, I would never want to have to live through that. It would seem from reading your post that you have found a tiny bit of closure, and for that for you I am happy. But to speak of offering condolences, I offer you mine, in the hopes that I should never have to live through the personal hell that you have had to live through.
May you forever more always know only peace.
What, like RPM?
For those not in the know:
http://www.rpm5.org/
http://www.rpm.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_Package_Manager#controversy